Dr Liyuan Zhuang

  • Lecturer (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

Biography

Liyuan holds two M.Sc. degrees from the University of Glasgow and completed her PhD in Urban Studies in 2021. Her research focuses on neighbourhood attachment, social participation, and urban governance in Chinese cities. She has taught on more than ten undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Urban Studies and serves as a reviewer for the Ethics Committee of the School of Social and Political Sciences.

Research interests

  • Social and Public Policy
  • Neighbourhoods, Residential Mobility, and Spatial Segregation
  • Social Cohesion and Participation
  • Urban Development and Goverance in Chinese Cities

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 7.

2025

Long, Jinqiao, MacLennan, Duncan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8425-3344 and Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 (2025) Toward net-zero emissions: constructing the nexus between housing systems and environmental outcomes. Next Energy, 9, 100426. (doi: 10.1016/j.nxener.2025.100426)

Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684, Long, Jinqiao, Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 and Wang, Ya Ping ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3765-0205 (2025) Neighborhood attachment in Chinese cities: a case study of Chengdu. Urban Geography, (doi: 10.1080/02723638.2025.2549282) (Early Online Publication)

Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 and Mack, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0746-3794 (2025) Supervising Dissertations: Reflections on cross-cultural MSc supervision [blog post]. [Website]

Long, Jinqiao and Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 (2025) Housing finance and inequality: mortgage debt in urban China. Habitat International, 161, 103411. (doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103411)

2024

Long, Jinqiao, Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 and MacLennan, Duncan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8425-3344 (2024) 国际城市住房系统减碳经验及其中国 镜鉴 = Global strategies for reducing carbon emissions in urban housing: lessons for China. 城市观察 = Urban Insight, 92(4), pp. 147-164. (doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-7178.2024.04.011)

Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 and Bell, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7585-3540 (2024) Improving the learning experience of Chinese Masters’ students in UK higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 48(6), pp. 625-637. (doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2024.2379955)

2017

Sun, Yeran ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6847-614X, Du, Yunyan, Wang, Yu and Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 (2017) Examining associations of environmental characteristics with recreational cycling behaviour by street-level Strava data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(6), 644. (doi: 10.3390/ijerph14060644) (PMID:28617345) (PMCID:PMC5486330)

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Number of items: 7.

Articles

Long, Jinqiao, MacLennan, Duncan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8425-3344 and Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 (2025) Toward net-zero emissions: constructing the nexus between housing systems and environmental outcomes. Next Energy, 9, 100426. (doi: 10.1016/j.nxener.2025.100426)

Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684, Long, Jinqiao, Kamete, Amin Y. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-0593 and Wang, Ya Ping ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3765-0205 (2025) Neighborhood attachment in Chinese cities: a case study of Chengdu. Urban Geography, (doi: 10.1080/02723638.2025.2549282) (Early Online Publication)

Long, Jinqiao and Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 (2025) Housing finance and inequality: mortgage debt in urban China. Habitat International, 161, 103411. (doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103411)

Long, Jinqiao, Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 and MacLennan, Duncan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8425-3344 (2024) 国际城市住房系统减碳经验及其中国 镜鉴 = Global strategies for reducing carbon emissions in urban housing: lessons for China. 城市观察 = Urban Insight, 92(4), pp. 147-164. (doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-7178.2024.04.011)

Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 and Bell, Karen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7585-3540 (2024) Improving the learning experience of Chinese Masters’ students in UK higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 48(6), pp. 625-637. (doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2024.2379955)

Sun, Yeran ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6847-614X, Du, Yunyan, Wang, Yu and Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 (2017) Examining associations of environmental characteristics with recreational cycling behaviour by street-level Strava data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(6), 644. (doi: 10.3390/ijerph14060644) (PMID:28617345) (PMCID:PMC5486330)

Website

Zhuang, Liyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1927-9684 and Mack, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0746-3794 (2025) Supervising Dissertations: Reflections on cross-cultural MSc supervision [blog post]. [Website]

This list was generated on Sat Oct 18 11:48:50 2025 BST.

Supervision

I welcome applications from prospective PhD students in the following areas:

  • Urban Policy
  • Neighbourhoods and Urban Segregation, Residential Mobility, Neighbourhood Attachment, and Neighbourhood effects
  • Social Participation
  • Urban Development in Chinese Cities

I primarily work with qualitative methods.

I am currently supervising PhDs:

  • Du, Yuhui
    Urban Studies PhD
  • Li, Yuxiao
    State Involvement in Governing Housing Informality: Changes and Impacts in Urban China

Teaching

Course Convenors:

Urban Design & Development (URBAN 5098)

Research Design, Methods, and Ethics (URBAN 5119)

 

Undergraduate Teaching Contributuions:

SPP 1B Understanding Glasgow (PUBPOL 1011)

SPP 1A Foundations of Welfare (PUBPOL 1010) 

Environment and Climate justice (UG Honours Course) 

 

Postgraduate Teaching Contributuions:

Urban Conservation(URBAN 5126)

Research Design (SPS5034) 

Sustainable Urban Futures (URBAN5093)

Regenerating Cities (URBAN5041) 

Global Cities (URBAN5014) 

City Planning Theory & Practice (URBAN5099) 

 

Dissertation Supervision:

PGT Public Policy Programme (URBAN5080P)

PGT City Planning Programme (URBAN5054)

PGT Nankai Programme

UG dissertations for Social and Public Policy